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”You never know who’s going to show up. You just have to be there” NBA sensation Kevin Durant of Golden State Warriors (pictured in the Dyckman T-shirt) made a surprise visit last summer 54 THE RED BULLETIN
Dyckman hard, and, while everybody stayed friendly enough, no one wanted to lose. Stevens, Booth and Jenkins quickly determined that they needed referees, so each of the teams donated $50 to hire them for the remaining games, thus making the first modest investment in the Dyckman Basketball League. There was barely enough money left over for a trophy. “Fifty dollars didn’t really go nowhere,” Stevens says now, laughing. “But we made it work.” Things didn’t just happen overnight. The story of how that small-scale competition between friends became the Dyckman Tournament now celebrating its 30th anniversary is a saga of steady, measured steps made over endless hours in the heat and sun, intermingled with meteoric leaps forward. The league generated a modest buzz and the number of teams grew to 10 after the first year, then increased to 12 a couple of summers later. By the sixth year, the organisers had added divisions incorporating players of a wider range of ages and abilities. Sets of bleachers – tiered stands for spectators – were shoehorned into the set-up and soon an announcer began calling out the action over a PA system. Stevens and the others didn’t invent the format – that drew on the earlier success in Rucker Park and West 4th – but the area already had a proud heritage, having been the first hoops haunt of Ferdinand Alcindor Jr, later better known as NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a generation earlier. On Dyckman’s 10th anniversary, with the league now attracting top-level talent from NCAA Division 1 – the highest tier of US college basketball – Converse signed on as a sponsor. But Stevens made sure the neighbourhood knew that this was its own event, created for Dyckman by people from Dyckman. This included the large incoming Dominican population who found a home in Inwood and elevated the whole clamorous, drumbanging courtside scene. Word spread, and various basketball luminaries began making the trip to the top of Manhattan to experience these physical games and their raucous atmosphere. Marcus Camby was the first NBA player to show up, in the late ’90s, THE RED BULLETIN 55
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